Adriana Torres Topaga

Visual artist, designer and researcher

Adriana Torres Topaga born in Bogotá, Colombia.She’s a visual artist and
designer based on Linz, Austria. Master degree as Industrial Designer from
Javeriana University of Bogotá, Master in Digitals Arts at the Pompeu Fabra
University in Barcelona and Master at space & design strategies at the
University of Art and Design Linz.

She is currently PhD candidte at this universitiy continuing her research around
the skin, human body and their relationship to space on the fi elds of social
construction. and skin architecture.

During her master study space&design strategies was member of the “public
space 2.0” research project group of the same Faculty, where she took part on
the refl ection of social practices-oriented design in public space and focused
mainly in the development of a technological wearable garment.
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Some of her works show her fascination around the human body and the
skin as a political space for questioning, ideals of gender, beauty, consum,
the privat and public, the relationship between new and low technologies
around the human body. Other topics or her interest are art and collective
and interdisciplinary creation, design and methodology,...

2010-2012 Master Study at the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz, Institute of Space and Design, Department of Space and Design Strategies / Linz
Master Dissertation: “The skin: a negotiation space”
Advisor: Professor Elsa Prochazka
1998-1999 Master of Digital Arts, Pompeu Fabra University / Barcelona
Final Project: Ergonomic compositions. CD Roms: “Fragmentierung-ción” and “Shankya Theorie” Visualisation
1986-1994 Industrial Designer studies at Javeriana University / Bogotá
Final Project: “Contacto” (Contact) interactive sound dress for children.
1987-1988 Exchange Student, Maryvale High School / Phoenix
1987-1988 Cultural exchange student, Maryvale High School / Phoenix, Arizona
1986 Highschool, Colegio Eucarístico / Bogotá, Colombia

2016 DIE NEUEN. New members of the Gallery bvoö. Linz.
2015 “in Häute Schlüpfen”. Soloexhibition. Galery Forum Wels
Kunstsalon Linz with the Gallery Forum Wels.
Residency at “Werkstatt am Hauptplatz” Linz, developing “the utopic
body series”. Linz
Design of the magazin maizone. Client. maiz. Linz
:: visionXsound 2015 : Presentation of the video “mice”. Neulengbach, NÖ
COCOSA NEL. Performance, together with Arnulfo Pardo Ravagli and
Luis Hoyos. Feminismus und Krawall. Raum Schiff. Linz
2014 Residency at Tanz Hotel Vienna. Residency and presentation of the tanze performance “Klette”. Together with Arnulfo Pardo Ravagli and Andrea Maria Handler. At Tanz Hotel Vienna.
Lange Nacht der Bühnen Lab on stage. Videos. Ars Electronica Center / Deep Space.
Summer sessions lab on stage. Foto series. Gallery Forum Wels.
“lana sube lana baja”III Wool Symposium. Performance El Arreciado, Toledo Spain.
Klette, dance performance. Premiere. Lentos Museum. Linz
“Out of the box”. Workshop. University of the ignorants. Antropophagic week. Tabak Fabrik. Linz.
Konzentraktion. Performance. Forum Gallery Wels, Upper Austria.
2013 Residency at “Werkstatt am Hauptplatz” developing “lab on stage Sessions” together with Arnulfo P...